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practical joke A practical joke or prank is a trick played on people, generally causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.Marsh, Moira. 2015. ''Practically Joking''. Logan: Utah State University Press. The perpetrat ...

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Jape (band) Jape are an Irish electronic–rock band from Dublin. Formed as a side project by Richie Egan whilst part of The Redneck Manifesto, they have released five albums to date; '' Cosmosphere'' (2003), '' The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than ...

, an Irish electronic/rock band *

JAPE (linguistics) In computational linguistics, JAPE is the Java Annotation Patterns Engine, a component of the open-source General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) platform. JAPE is a finite state transducer A finite-state transducer (FST) is a finite-st ...

, a transformation language widely used in natural language processing * JAPE, an automated pun generator *

Jape (software) Jape is a configurable, graphical proof assistant, originally developed by Richard Bornat at Queen Mary, University of London and Bernard Sufrin the University of Oxford. The program is available for the Mac, Unix, and Windows operating systems ...

, a Java-based proof assistant * Java Annotations Pattern Engine – see

General Architecture for Text Engineering General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) is a Java suite of natural language processing (NLP) tools for man tasks, including information extraction in many languages. It is now used worldwide by a wide community of scientists, companies, t ...

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